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asphodel
asphodel , name for plants of several genera of the family Lilaceae ( lily family). The true asphodels belong to two small and very similar genera ( Asphodelus and Asphodeline ) of the Mediterranean region and India. The showy flower spike of the former is usually white; of the latter, yellow. Both are stemless, hardy herbs. The asphodel (or king's spear) of the ancients, sacred to Persephone and associated with the fields of the dead, was Asphodeline lutea; the asphodel of the early French and English poets was a narcissus. The false asphodel is Tofieldia, represented in North America by T. glutinosa and a few other species. The turkeybeard ( Xerophyllum asphodeloides ) of the Atlantic coastal plains is also called mountain asphodel. Asphodels are classified in the division Magnoliophyta , class Liliopsida, order Liliales, family Liliaceae.
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asphodel
Book article from: Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes
asphodel • Adele , Aix-la-Chapelle, aquarelle, artel, au naturel, bagatelle, béchamel, befell, bell, belle, boatel...x2022;mirabelle • Christabel • Jezebel • Isabel , Isobel •nutshell • infidel • asphodel •zinfandel • Grenfell • Hillel ...
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asphodel
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
asphodel an everlasting flower said to grow in the Elysian fields . The name is recorded from late Middle English and comes via Latin from the Greek base of daffodil .
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asphodel
Book article from: Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
...variously applied and thus much misunderstood. The asphodel of the poets is often a narcissus ; that of the ancients is either of two genera, Asphodeline or Asphodelus . Asphodels are hardy herbaceous perennials with...
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asphodel
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
asphodel liliaceous plant. XVI. — L. asphodelus — Gr. asphódelos . See DAFFODIL .
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asphodel
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...x2CC;del / • n. 1. a Eurasian plant (genera Asphodelus and Asphodeline ) of the lily family, typically having long slender leaves and flowers borne on a spike. See also bog asphodel . 2. poetic/lit. an immortal flower said to grow...
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